knock-kneed

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Yonder silly little knock-kneed baah-ling does not know the old wolf dressed in the sheep's fleece.

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  1. Having the legs curved inward so that the knees touch or knock together in walking; hence, halting; feeble: as, a very knock-kneed argument. Formerly also knack-kneed. Risingh, who succeeded to the command of New Sweden, looms largely in ancient records as a gigantic Swede, who, had he not been rather knock-kneed and splay-footed, might have served for the model of a Samson. Irving, Knickerbocker, vi 2.

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